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  1. 2026-05-09 / HACKER NEWSWhat We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap — Historical Parallel Between Offshoring and AI Coding — 114 Points on HNPublished May 5, this essay draws a direct parallel between the early-2000s offshore outsourcing wave and today's AI coding tools, arguing that when code production gets cheap, the cost migrates from creation to comprehension. The author recounts the Heartland Information Services experience where 'the understanding of WHY something was built lived on one side of the world and the responsibility for maintaining it lived on the other.' The key difference with AI: generated code may have no human who EVER understood its full intent, making the comprehension problem more acute.
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